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The Central Register of Foreigners. A Short History of Early Digitisation in the Swiss Federal Administration

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dc.creatorKoller, Guido
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-09T07:27:23Z
dc.date.available2021-07-09T07:27:23Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe modern Swiss Confederation was founded in 1848. Since then, government and administration have been constantly reorganised. One important, but little noticed change occurred between the 1960s and 1980s: the automation and standardisation of information management. This was an important requirement for taking “binding decisions” (Niklas Luhmann) in times of rapidly growing quantities of information. The paper examines the steps toward automation in the Swiss federal administration using the example of the Zentrales Ausländerregister (Central Register of Foreigners; ZAR) of the Eidgenössische Fremdenpolizei (Swiss Police for Foreigners). Its focus is on the ZAR and data processing as a means of operationalising administrative workflows, showing that data processing developed incrementally on a path that finally led to the digitisation of increasingly large parts of the administration. A generalisation of this example yields a historical model of the early stages of digitisation of public administrations that would ultimately lead to various forms of e-government.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/7946
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16237
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/17088
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSFB 1187 "Medien der Kooperation" an der Universität Siegen
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2567-9104
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMedia in Action. Interdisciplinary Journal on Cooperative Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectSchweizde
dc.subjectBundesregierungde
dc.subjectVerwaltungde
dc.subjectDigitalisierungde
dc.subjectAusländerzentralregisterde
dc.subjectSwitzerlanden
dc.subjectFederal governmenten
dc.subjectAdministrationen
dc.subjectDigitisationen
dc.subjectCentral Register of Foreignersen
dc.subject.ddcddc:302.23
dc.titleThe Central Register of Foreigners. A Short History of Early Digitisation in the Swiss Federal Administrationen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-07-12T20:52:57
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/7946
local.source.epage92
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleFundaments of Digitisation
local.source.spage81

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